Hillary A Loser, American!

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Sunday, September 17, 2017

Hillary Clinton rejects the idea that a June 2016
meeting between her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and
then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch critically damaged her White House
bid.

“I just don’t buy that,” Clinton
said in a PBS interview aired Friday evening to promote her new book,
“What Happened,” about her loss last year to Donald Trump.

As Clinton has in several other, recent interviews
promoting the book, she heaped much of the blame on then-FBI Director
James Comey.

Comey led the Justice Department investigation into
Clinton’s use of private email servers as secretary of state, after
Lynch stepped back in the probe, as a result of her allowing Bill
Clinton into her airplane to talk while on the tarmac of a Phoenix
airport.

“My husband and Loretta Lynch said they didn’t say a
word" about the probe, Clinton told PBS. “I honestly reject that
premise, partly because there’s a chain of command in the Justice
Department.”
Clinton points out that Lynch had a deputy attorney,
Sally Yates, whom she called “a woman of experience and integrity.” And
she seemed to suggest that Yates could have run the email probe.
However, Clinton never really made clear in the interview why Yates
didn’t take over the investigation.

She also argued that Comey, appointed by
then-President Barack Obama, a fellow Democrat, was under “political
pressure” from inside and outside of the FBI to make a case out of the
criminal investigation into the matter of her emails and use of the
private servers.

Comey in July 2016 said Clinton was “extremely
careless” in handling classified and other emails on the servers but
recommend no criminal charges -- a conclusion Lynch accepted.

However, Clinton argued in the PBS interview that
Comey delivered an even bigger blow to her campaign in late-October
2016, days before voters went to the polls, when he effectively
re-opened the case to review new information.

"OK, that was over on July 5. Right,” Clinton said.
“That, I thought, was a breach of professional ethics
and responsibility and a rejection of the protocols within the Justice
Department. It was over. And we were doing fine going forward. What
really was costly, and what I believe was the proximate cause of my
defeat, was his October 28 letter, which has never been adequately
explained or defended, had nothing to do with what happened, you know,
months before.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/17/clinton-rejects-premise-husband-meeting-ag-lynch-on-tarmac-critically-hurt-campaign.html

Hillary
Clinton told CNN on Wednesday that it is time to abolish the Electoral
College, part of a sweeping interview where the former Democratic
nominee sought to explain why she lost the 2016 election.

I’m old enough to remember watching the 1992 convention speech by
Pat Buchanan in which he described a culture war taking place in
America. Twenty-two years later, are those battles on their way to being
settled?

That night in Houston in 1992, Buchanan highlighted a couple
socialissues of great concern, directly contrasting George Bush with
candidate Clinton. Buchanan described Bush
as “a defender of right-to-life, and a champion of theJudeo-Christian
values and beliefs upon which America wasfounded.” On the other hand,
Clinton would impose “abortion on demand, alitmus test for the Supreme
Court” and “homosexual rights.”

Progressives (who were called liberals back then) feigned shock at
the idea there was a culture war taking place, though Buchanan and many
who heard him that night probably felt their side was merely playing
defense in that conflict.
Twenty-two years later the ground has shifted on both of those
issues. Gay marriage (which has been a major goal for gay rights
advocates) was supported by 27 percent
of Americans in 1996, four years after Buchanan’s speech. This year
that number had risen to 54 percent, exactly double what it was. And
since the young tend to consider gay rights a given rather than an issue
to be debated, the trend will likely continue.
On abortion, the shift has been less sweeping but it is clearly
there. According to Gallup, the percentage of Americans who called
themselves pro-life
was at about 33 percent in 1996. In 2012, that figure hit 50 percent
versus 41 percent who considered themselves pro-choice. The young tend
to be more pro-life than their elders, meaning that trend will also
likely continue.
State laws and Supreme Court decisions insure both of these issues
will be tied up in courts for another decade or more. But as of right
now the momentum is pretty clear. It appears the country has decided to
split the difference on the 90’s culture wars. That may be little
consolation to either side but it does seem worth pointing out that the
popular momentum has swung pretty clearly on both issues.